Giants of 80s fund management - where are they now?

Gosling's Grouse

Ask anyone who has been around for a while to cast their minds back to the 1980s and a number of fun...

Ask anyone who has been around for a while to cast their minds back to the 1980s and a number of fund management companies come to mind who, 20 years on, find themselves in very different positions. Hendersons was a group that, buoyed by the title of being the industry's largest investment trust manager, had begun to build a reputation as a unit trust player. The crash of 1987 put pay to that and it is only now, 18 years later, that we are seeing the potential reawakening of this group. Perpetual was not quite a giant - but it was limbering up to become the industry's lead in the early 9...